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Sandy Santa! Odisha sand artist creates Santa sculpture with sand and roses

 

Puri: On the auspicious Christmas eve, acclaimed international sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a huge sand sculpture of Santa Claus at Puri beach with about 5,400 roses. Pattnaik created the sand Santa Claus with an installation of red roses and other flowers with the message ‘Merry Christmas, Enjoy your Christmas with COVID guidelines’.

 

Mr Sudarsan, a Padma Shri awardee, created the 50ft long and 28ft wide sand sculpture of Santa Claus with installation of about 5,400 red roses and some white flowers. He took eight hours for carving and two days for preparation with help of his sand art institute to complete this sculpture.

 

‘We all know the third wave of COVID-19 already started almost all over the World, so we created this sculpture where Santa is spreading a message of following COVID guidelines’, Sudarsan said. ‘I hope this will set a new record in the record book’, he said. Earlier, Sudarsan’s sand sculptures on COVID-19 was appreciated by World Health Organisation (WHO).

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